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The Gun Industry's Deadly
See No Evil, Hear No Evil

Updated July 21, 2003 12:01 a.m. ET

In your July 9 editorial "Bushwhacked," you mimic the "hear no evil, see no evil" posture of the gun industry when it characterizes the Brady Center's lawsuit on behalf of nine victims of the Washington, D.C.-area snipers as based on "hypothetical facts." The sniper shootings were all too real to the families whose loved ones were injured or killed. Just as real was the gross irresponsibility of the gun sellers who made it possible for the snipers to be armed.